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A Call for Economic Action
ecthompsonmd May 8, 2013

Over the last several years, I’ve really tried to focus my blog away from softer, feel-good issues and try to focus on the economy. I felt that by studying the economy and economic principles, I could make some sense out of our political decisions. So, with the election of Barack Obama I began to write more and more about a stimulus package. The more I read, the more it seemed that thoughtful decisions regarding the stimulus were being thrown out the window in favor of political expediency. Almost as soon as the stimulus package was passed, backlash over “government spending” started.

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More on Steve Jobs (Update)
ecthompsonmd October 6, 2011

There are very few geniuses who actually touch all of our lives the way Steve Jobs has. Off the top my head, I can think of Thomas Edison, Alexander Bell and Einstein. But the neat thing about Steve Jobs was that he did not hide from the public. As a matter of fact, he embraced the public like no CEO did before him. When a new product was introduced, it wasn’t some gorgeous Madison Avenue model, or even that paid spokesman with the impossibly deep voice and perfect enunciation, it was Steve Jobs who took mic in hand and introduced the

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Long-Term Capital Management – The Carnage
ecthompsonmd October 9, 2010

This is the last in my series (here, here, here) on Long-Term Capital Management. For those who haven’t been following, long-term capital management is a hedge fund that was started by John Meriwether. John Meriwether was one of the founders of arbitrage trading. He started this over at Salomon Brothers. Meriwether gathered an All-Star team and opened the fund in 1994. The first three years can only be described as an amazing success. Almost everything they touched turned to gold. There were using the sophisticated computer models which wowed Wall Street. (Much of the following information comes from the book When

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